The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-11-04

Tho REGlsrBR has no personal quar-
rel with DR.. H0usef. It published his
advertisement and he paid the bill. 1t
was evident that he was not what he
represented himself to be. A man
who cannot spells common English
words correctly and who In his written
aud printed works habitually violates
the simplest rules of English gram
mar 10 not finely educated man. 1t
was apparent that he was quaCk and
q fraud but We thought he was harm
less and our use of him ~ an Alustra-
ton of the value Of advertising was
intended rather as good humOretl In
stance Of the pr0neness Of the American
people to be humbuggett than as y
blow at him. Since 60 much exception
has been taken to our rema rks, how.
ever, we have taken the pains to inves-
tigate little and our opinion has been
changed. DR.. Houser IL not harmless.
If he were only false pretender and
q quack it would not be % bad. But
he il the apostle and advocate Of the
vilest and most perniciOus doctrines.
We hold in our hand pamphlet of
his entitled Love and Divorce" the
publication of which we solemnly af.
firm, ought to be suppressed by law.
The whole argument of It 10 thinly
yelled plea for free love. Read this
sentence. "DiUOrce should al,CGys be
granted tUhen it Is demanded, for
The very demand is proof that the
parties do not want to live together"
Fancy q community in which such q
law held sway! There are other sem
fences in the book too vile in their
suggestions to be quoted here, and
which we can only describe by saying
that If their teachings were acted
out, the marriage vows would be but
the hollowest mockery. Does the
teacher of such doctrines deserve the
support and countenaDce of Christian
men and women? The publication Of
this infamous pamphlet Of itself ought
to deprive him of every dollar Of pat
ronage. We do not expect those
who have placed themselves under his
care to be Influenced by what we have
said; but we confidently await the
time when they will wish they had
never heard of DR.. J. A. Houser.
1t has been clearly developed during
the past week that the scheme Of the
democrats Is to concentrate their whole
power in an effort to elect their candi-|
dates for clerk and sheriff. Having no
hopes of electing their whole ticket,
they will sacrifice part of 1t Unnecessary
to save the rest. This has always been
the plan Of their campaign in this
county, but we trust that this year It
will avail nothing. There is no reason
why Mr.. Duffy or Mr.. Brittdh should
be scratched, and there is less reason
why they should be traded off. The |
way to elect the whole republican
ticket is for every republican in the |
county to vote for every man on It. |
And that is what we believe will be |
done.
The proprietor of the Commercial |
Hotel, Neodesha, Kansas publishes
the following "Notice to the public''i |
last weeks issue Of the Register, of
that city: "Beware Of one J. E. Bru- |
ner, by profession q piano tuner. who
makes practice of beating his board |
bill wherever he goes. He has proven |
TO be dead beat of the first water. |
Pass him around. Exchanges please
copy"
Owing to the continued iii health Of
bis wife, Mr.. A. w. Rowland has
decided to rent his fine farm near
Geneva and remove his family to lola. |
While sincerely regretting the Attic. |
ton that makes the change necessary,
we are glad that Mr.. Rowland IL to
become one of our citizens. A notice !
Of the terms on which he will lease |
bis farm is published in another place.